ELLIMRI project ends with a pre-commercial ultra-low-field, transportable MRI prototype

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ELLIMRI, a project funded through Eurostars-3 Call 4 with co-financing from CDTI and the EU's Horizon Europe programme, has wrapped up with a pre-commercial prototype of an ultra-low-field MRI scanner. It is transportable and built around an elliptical design, meant to use patient space better while staying compact.

The system pairs an 86.7 mT permanent magnet with three gradient axes, radiofrequency coils and its own control and image-reconstruction software. It has imaged phantoms, musculoskeletal anatomy and, on an exploratory basis, heads. In a preclinical usability test, participants completed all five tasks, a 100% success rate, which is what five out of five comes to. Next come optimisation, industrialisation and clinical evaluation.